From the Secretariat

160 RMMLA BtJLLETiN December 1968 to the committees on any matter within their purview without hesitation or the necessity of further solicitation. The Association now has a large stable membership throughout the Rocky Mountain region, substantial outside support, permanent organization , a Bulletin for reports of studies, a Newsletter for stimulating discussion, a group of committees for channeling affairs into action and altogether a professional competence that seems to be awake to the current opportunities and responsibilities as students and professors of the world's languages and literatures. Respectfully submitted, Henry Pettit Executive Secretary FROM THE SECRETARIAT 22nd Annual (1968) Meeting USAF Academy / Colorado College Under the leadership of Colonel Jesse C. Gatlin, Jr., head of the English department in the Air Force Academy and 1968 president of RMMLA, over 400 RMMLA members took part in the 22nd annual meeting, October 11-12. Lt. Col. Michael J. Mendelsohn of the Academy and Thomas W. Ross of Colorado College headed an unusually efficient committee on arrangements, which included for the first time a staff of undergraduates to direct traffic and to take charge of records at all sessions. Associated meetings were held by the Western Literature Association, the mountain states Association of Departments of English, and an MLAA group concerned with preparation of junior college English faculties. Professor David H. Stewart, chairman of the English department in Idaho State University, was elected vice-president , and the invitation of his institution to entertain the 1970 meeting in Sun Valley was accepted. Professor Raymond R. MacCurdy, Jr., chairman of the department of modem and classical languages in the University of New Mexico, was elected to a two-year term as member-at-large of the Executive Board. First meetings of the Stone committees were held and preliminary reports made by the chairmen: Thomas H. Brown (Brigham Young University) for Developments in Language and Literature, Frederick D. Eddy (University of Colorado) for State Education Liaison, John D. Lindberg (Nevada Southern University) for National Legislation , and Dudley Wynn (University of New Mexico) for Foundations. The committees are in process of organization , and die chairmen are to meet this fall to draw lines of distinction and map areas of common concern. The Editorial Board met and arranged to become an active "working" body. The Executive Board accepted the resignation of Henry Pettit as Executive Secretary and appointed Edward P. Nolan, assistant professor of English and comparative literature in the University of Colorado, his successor for a five-year term effective 1 July 1969. At the business meeting, a resolution asking the Modem Language Association to reconsider its plans to meet in Chicago in 1969 was approved with only scattered dissent. Wilson Wilmarth (Language Department, Colorado State University) formally expressed the appreciation of the Association for the hospitality of the Academy. Papers by guests and members, presented to the meeting at large, appear in this issue of the Bulletin. An invitation has gone out to all other members who gave papers in section meetings to send in their papers for possible publication in future issues. 23rd Annual (1969) Meeting Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah The 23rd annual meeting of the Association in Provo, Utah, at the invitation of Brigham Young University, is From The Secretariat 161 scheduled for the weekend of October 10-11, 1969. Plans for the meeting will be the subject of an interim Board meeting in Provo, December 20-21. Some of the questions to be considered will include the following: Should a faculty exchange be organized ? Should the meeting begin Thursday afternoon? What, if any, conference theme is appropriate , and how may it be handled? What speakers should be invited? Should there be a banquet? with or without speaker? Members having suggestions on these or other subjects about the meeting are invited to send them AT ONCE to President R. Max Rogers, 326 McKay, Brigham Young University, Provo UT 84601, so that they may be taken up at the planning session. FACULTY PUBLICATIONS Lucy Fryxell (English, Augustana College, Sioux Falls) 'Teaching Aids from the New Grammars," (two parts) English Notes, XW (OctoberDecember 1967, March 1968). C. W. Geyer (English, Augustana College, Sioux Falls) "American Literature and the Curriculum," English Notes, XWA (May 1968), 3...